Mary Grow

by Mary Grow After the June 15 Vassalboro Cemetery Committee meeting, chairman Savannah Clark reported that two major topics were the cemetery on Bog Road, not far from the Webber Pond Road intersection, and Maple Grove Cemetery, on Webber Pond Road. The Bog Road Cemetery is not far northwest of Vassalboro Community School. Maple Grove […]

by Mary Grow China Rescue Chief Benjamin Loubier was the speaker at the June 18 China Emergency Services Assessment Committee (CESAC) meeting, and afterward he and China Village volunteer fire department Chief Joel Nelson led a tour of the headquarters the organizations share outside China Village. Loubier said China Rescue was founded in 1982. In […]

by Mary Grow As Lilja Bernheim tells it, as a very young child she was aware of the details of the world around her – so aware and engaged that her family’s move to a house on Lakeview Drive, in China, when she was nine years old meant she needed time to familiarize herself with […]

As Lilja Bernheim tells it, as a very young child she was aware of the details of the world around her – so aware and engaged that her family’s move to a h

by Mary Grow China select board members spent a fair amount of money at their June 29 meeting, paying the usual bills with a few additions. The most expensive decision was to buy a new town plow truck, as recommended by Director of Public Services Shawn Reed. The price is going to be a little […]

by Mary Grow Waterville For contemporary area residents, visualizing the City of Waterville as agricultural may be a challenge. Waterville is, these days, where people go to shop, visit the doctor, join friends at a restaurant, see a movie or a play – an urban center. Historians, even Henry Kingsbury in 1892, seem to have […]

by Mary Grow Buildings – finished, in progress and in the far future – were the main topics at the July 13 China select board meeting. Present to discuss them with the five board members were Sheldon Goodine, of the town’s building committee; Elaine Philbrook, of the community forest committee; and David Gower II, speaking […]

by Mary Grow At their July 8 meeting, Vassalboro select board members listened as Codes Officer Eric Currie and Leo Barnett, owner of marijuana-growing buildings on Old Meadow Road, argued about whether the board should re-license the facilities. The two men repeated most of the same arguments made at an April 30 meeting (see the […]

by Mary Grow It was South China Fire Chief Richard Morse’s turn to describe his department to the July 9 meeting of China’s Emergency Services Assessment Committee. His presentation followed those by China Village Fire Chief Joel Nelson on April 30 (see the May 14 issue of The Town Line, p. 3); Weeks Mills Fire […]

by Mary Grow Waterville continued The area on the west shore of the Kennebec River that became the town (and then the city) of Waterville had farms and farmers before those mentioned in last week’s article. There were “productive” farms by the 1790s, Rev. Edwin Carey Whittemore wrote in his chapter on the early settlers […]